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Military service
Service number:
J/17309
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
56 Sqdn.
Death:
April 10, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 175.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Richard Salisbury Birks
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Inscription
Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Stone of Remembrance - Runnymede Memorial - September 2010 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Panels
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Entrance
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Photo of RICHARD SALISBURY BIRKS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Document
Letter to Mr. Birks about the circumstances of his son's death, LAC, Ottawa Parents of Richard Salisbury Birks: William and Lucetta Birks, Oshawa, Ontario. Richard was their only child. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Cornwall (Ontario) Daily Standard Freeholder newspaper c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Richard Salisbury Birks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 137 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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